I think watching TV has influenced my books, but I don't think writing TV has. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I will read anything at all by Kate Atkinson, Daniel Woodrell, and William Kennedy, who are all fearless. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Before I write, I like to read obits in 'The Times' because they're well written, and I like the little details. It… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I don't think I could write a book that had an ideological plan going in - I think that would be a… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
The speed of the TV stuff vs. the self-imposed pace of novel writing has been a big adjustment, and going back and… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
In the world of book writing, there's a few people, maybe, where you have close relationships. In TV, there are so many… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can.… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Reading Dorothy B. Hughes's novel 'In a Lonely Place' for the first time is like finding the long-lost final piece to an… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“She said I'd better not make her unhappy because I oughta know that she's never unhappy alone.” — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Reading Dorothy B. Hughes's novel 'In a Lonely Place' for the first time is like finding the long-lost final piece to an enormous puzzle.… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“Bobby pins crunching under my feet, I walk through, surveying the damaged girlness.” — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I will read anything at all by Kate Atkinson, Daniel Woodrell, and William Kennedy, who are all fearless. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“But she became Gabby’s friend in that way that can happen, because the girl with the cool boots always finds the girl with the… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“Where’d that world go, that world when you’re a kid, and now I can’t remember noticing anything, not the smell of the leaves or… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“This girl, this girl, and he a man with a business and a secretary and a house with a furnace and bills and a… — megan abbott Copy Share Image
The speed of the TV stuff vs. the self-imposed pace of novel writing has been a big adjustment, and going back and forth often… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
“We’re all the same under our skin, aren’t we? We’re all wanting things we don’t understand. Things we can’t even name. The yearning so… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
